Vigilantes Quotes
There was Arab terrorism even then, often directed at fellow Arabs who were deemed not zealous enough or insufficiently orthodox in following Islam.
The months later, Colorado “volunteers” attacked a Cheyenne village flying and American and White flag, killing the women and children at what would come to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643710 for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country. He even was wrong about the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. IT was 6 million, not 3 million.
This statement was published in a major magazine of the time. It referred to a notorious lynching in the South where the victim had been brutally tortured and burned to death. In this case the victim had apparently committed a horrible crime. The Bishop condemned the horrific nature or the lynching but took the view that it was an act of insanity and that the relatives of the child killed by the lynching victim may well have been driven to insanity by the act However, this lynching, like most all in the South was not just an act of vengeance—insane or not—by relatives of a victim, it was participated on by a large mob, many of whom had no relationship to any of the parties. Whites who committed horrible crimes were rarely lynched, but many accused Blacks were lynched even though they turned out to have been innocent.
Two days later, Ohio National Guardsmen following Rhodes's orders killed four unarmed, non-violent, students on the Kent State campus and wounded nine others. The claim of the governor's apologists was that he was speaking metaphorically and never wanted anyone killed or injured. After this quotation and a few others, politicians—particularly Presidents and Governors—have been more aware that their statements and words may have very significant consequences including death, so they are particularly careful of their rhetoric when there are controversial incidents. Note that Governor Rhodes saw students protesting a war as dangerous revolutionaries. None of the students who were killed had been trained in anything revolutionary.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643709) for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country.
